Conical Camber

from the Virginia Tech Aircraft Design Information Sources pages

R.T. Jones, "Estimated Lift-Drag Ratios at Supersonic Speeds," NACA TN 1350, 1947.

C.F. Hall, "Lift, Drag, and Pitching Moment of Low Aspect Ratio Wings at Subsonic and Supersonic Speeds," NACA RM A53A30, 1953.

J.W. Boyd, E. Migotsky, and B.E. Wetzel, "A Study of Conical Camber for Triangular and Sweptback Wings," NACA RM A55G19, Nov. 1955.

S.H. Tsien, "The Supersonic Conical Wing of Minimum Drag," JAS, Vol. 23, No. 12, Dec. 1955, pp. 805-817.

E.R. Phelps and J.W. Boyd, "A Wind-Tunnel Investigation of the Effects of Conical Camber for an Airplane Configuration Having a Triangular Wing of Aspect Ratio 2.2," NACA RM A57A10, April 1957.

A variation, the Supercritical Conical Camber Concept

W.H. Mason and D.S. Miller, "Controlled Supercritical Crossflow on Supersonic Wings - An Experimental Validation," AIAA Paper No. 80-1421, July 1980.

D.S. Miller, E.J. Landrum, J.C. Townsend, and W.H. Mason, "Pressure and Force Data for a Flat Wing and a Warped Conical Wing Having a Shockless Recompression at Mach 1.62," NASA TP 1759, April 1981.

W.H. Mason, D.S. Miller, J.L. Pittman, and M.J. Siclari, "A Supersonic Maneuver Wing Designed for Nonlinear Attached Flow," AIAA Paper No. 83-0425, January 1983.

W.H. Mason, "SC3 - A Wing Concept for Supersonic Maneuvering," AIAA Paper No. 83-1858, July 1983.

W.H. Mason, "A Wing Concept for Supersonic Maneuvering," NASA CR 3763, December 1983.

J.L. Pittman, D.S. Miller, and W.H. Mason, "Fuselage and Canard Effects on an Attached Flow, Maneuver Wing at Mach 1.62," NASA TP 2249, February 1984.

J.L. Pittman, D.S. Miller, and W.H. Mason, "Supersonic, Nonlinear, Attached-Flow Wing Design for High Lift with Experimental Validation," NASA TP 2336, August 1984.

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